Irina von Wiese

Irina Stephanie von Wiese und Kaiserswaldau[1] (born 11 September 1967) is a British politician, who was a Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London between 2019 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU.[2][3]

Irina von Wiese
Member of the European Parliament
for London
In office
2 July 2019 – 31 January 2020
Preceded byDr Charles Tannock
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born (1967-09-11) 11 September 1967
Cologne, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityBritish, German
Political partyLiberal Democrats
Children1
Alma materHarvard University

Career

In a by-election in 2017, she stood unsuccessfully for election to Hammersmith & Fulham council, coming third.[1]

She was elected a Member of the European Parliament for the London region in the 2019 European Parliament election, on the Liberal Democrat party list, assuming office on 2 July 2019. She sat within the Renew Europe group of liberal political parties and served as Vice-Chair on the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI).[4]

Until at least August 2019, she was formerly the Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate for Hammersmith in the 2019 United Kingdom general election.[5][6] She is a candidate for the London Assembly elections in 2020.

Personal life

Wiese holds both German and British citizenship.[7] She earned a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree from Harvard University.[7] She has one teenage daughter[8] and has housed refugees in her London home since 2016, working with the charity Refugees at Home.[8]

gollark: I'm not saying that they shouldn't care, to clarify, but that people don't, telling them their preferences are wrong is not really a winning strategy, and the lack of concern of most richer countries for poorer ones reflects most people's demonstrated attitudes.
gollark: Yes, exactly.
gollark: (also, global prosperity is generally going up, illiteracy & extreme poverty going down, etc.)
gollark: Anyway, I find those "various people die of easily preventable deaths → capitalism bad" things unreasonable. I suspect most people don't actually *care* about random people somewhere dying, given the fact that you can quite easily donate to very effective charities for e.g. helping fix malaria under the existing system, and yet nobody does this.
gollark: There are MANY messages here. Yay for having vast amounts of free time now so I can read them all?

References
  1. "2017 council by-election results". LBHF. 15 May 2017.
  2. "Brexit Party leads in Euro poll as UK results roll in - updates". Evening Standard. 26 May 2019. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  3. "The UK's European elections 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  4. "Home | Irina VON WIESE | MEPs | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  5. "Liberal Democrat Parliamentary candidates". Mark Pack. 9 September 2019. Archived from the original on 31 August 2019. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  6. MEP, Irina von Wiese (1 March 2019). "Thank you to all Hammersmith LibDem members who entrusted me with their vote. I am honoured to have been selected your parliamentary candidate. The work starts today - let's put Liberal Democrats back on the Hammersmith map!pic.twitter.com/Si4eKMc4b8".
  7. "Irina Von Wiese". London Liberal Democrats. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  8. "What Hosting A Refugee Taught My Teenage Daughter". HuffPost UK. 2 April 2019. Retrieved 21 August 2019.


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